We’re All Rockford Now
People in Rockford have an inferiority complex. In the nearly 40 years I have lived here, the city has broken into the national news on very few occasions, and virtually every one was a source of shame.
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Westerns Episode 1: Introduction – The American Epic
In this first episode of the Podcast series, Dr. Fleming discusses the enduring appeal of the genre of the Western and things to keep in mind as we will watch films on which both he and host Stephen Heiner will comment. Homework for episode 2? Watch the 1929 version of The Virginian.
Ukraine War at One Year: Toward Multipolarity
For this first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I thought I’d take a positive view. What’s happening is the end of American “unipolarity.” That’s where post-Cold War America became the Unipower, the “sole remaining superpower,”
Why Do Most Patriots Oppose Biden’s Ukraine War?
In any war, patriots are most likely to “support the troops.” And to join themselves, or encourage their children to join. Remember after 9/11? The flags flying. Rallying around the military. Support for the president soaring over 90%. The whole country taking a bead on Osama bin Laden.
Wednesday’s Child: Psychology 101
“Don’t mention the war,” advised Basil in a famous episode of Fawlty Towers called “The Germans,” and I reckon the gentle reader appreciates that I’ve followed the hapless hotelier’s advice during the last few months of the ongoing catastrophe. Obliquely, however, that fast may be broken, rather the way a practicing Orthodox believer may sneak in a prawn or two during the Great Lent, which, incidentally, starts on Monday.
Ohio Poisoning: Heck of a Job, Brandon
If it wasn’t for new Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance making a stink about the disaster, D.C. still would not have taken notice, including the mainstream media. Now, they certainly are, because they know it will be an issue against Biden and other Democrats in the 2024 election.
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi
A leaked FBI memo from their Richmond Virginia office targets those it refers to as Radical Traditional Catholics (RTC). RTC is defined as a subset of those the memo refers to as racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists (RMVE).
Seven Against Thebes
This is not a one-dimensional play, but looked at in moral and social terms, Aeschylus’ trilogy shows what happens when family relations are out of joint: The entire city suffers.
America, a Captive Nation: The Destruction of Monuments
The first American oubtreak of political iconoclasm took place during the Federal government’s “reconstruction” of the South. The euphemism “reconstruction” is a typical tool of all despotisms, which use words like patriotism, human rights, people’s republics, reeducation camps, and social justice to cover vast confiscations of property, mass murder, and the corruption of children
Wednesday’s Child: A Hopeful Sign
Were Plato alive today, and not in jail for extremism, I wonder what he and his cronies would be talking about in the boozer. Socrates, certainly, would by then have suffered pretty much the same fate as he did, and the conversation – transcribed for posterity by some sympathetic soul on the Fleming Foundation – would lack some of its former brilliance, but still its likely drift intrigues me.
